After talking to the microphones of RAI Sport, Inter coach Luciano Spalletti headed to the press conference concluding the game against Pordenone and had the following to say about tonight’s game:

Did a lot of players experince fatigue today? Karamoh has his highs an lows, an indication of something? “Considering how everything went down, I think that my choices maybe were not the best ones. I did not help my players, I expected something different, I expected more. Eder and Karamoh are offensive players, but with Cancelo I hoped to get a more stable game from a tactic point of view. We did not manage to take control of the game, we got confused as the pace of play picked up and was a bit disorganised. Karamoh started on the left because his right foot is the strongest one, since he is a player that challenges the defender if he can go in the middle with his right foot he can go for goal. Then I changed because it was not that easy, he did some good things and of course had some trouble covering the entire left side. These kind of explosive players need to recover, you can not ask them to rush back all the time. During extra time everything looked better, Pordenone were great, just like I expected them to be. Then we have the psychological factor, as each minute passed, their moral and personality got higher and higher. And for us it was the opposite. Then during the shoot-out we can all thank Daniele Padelli who made two exceptional saves”.

Were you mat at the team? “I try to behave correctly, meaning I always try to support them. In games like this the psychological factor always come in play, therefore I told them to remain calm because the difference between them and us remains until the last seconds of the game if you can keep your cool. After the final whistle I complimented the players. After our third and final substitution we were outnumbered since a lot of players were suffering from fatigue”.

Most of the players that started do not have a lot of playing time, what kind of answers did you get? “I got the right answers from the choices I made. But also tonight you could see the quality of our players. Cancelo has pace and is good with both his feet. Dalbert got a minor injury but remained on the pitch, remember that although we did not play well today we had 4-5 really good opportunities”.

Source: fcinternews.it